{"id":100,"date":"2019-01-14T11:53:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T16:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.rutgers.edu\/resources-cs-rutgers-edu\/?page_id=100"},"modified":"2026-11-02T15:11:30","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T20:11:30","slug":"accounts-passwords-groups","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.rutgers.edu\/resources-cs-rutgers-edu\/docs\/accounts-passwords-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Account Management"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"100\" class=\"elementor elementor-100\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-165b3759 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"165b3759\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-85a456f\" data-id=\"85a456f\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4f9b7d9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4f9b7d9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Modified: Feb 12, 2026<\/p><p>Computer Science user ID is your <b>University NetID<\/b>. You must have a University NetID before using a Computer Science account. Here&#8217;s the University&#8217;s tool for activating your NetID: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/netid.rutgers.edu\/\">https:\/\/netid.rutgers.edu<\/a><\/em><\/p><p><em>Computer Science Linux systems use the same passwords as the University NetID. An account will automatically be created and activated upon your first login.<\/em><\/p><ul><li><i><strong>Changing your password.\u00a0<\/strong>If you are using your NetID password (most users) to change your password, just follow the instructions on the <a href=\"https:\/\/netid.rutgers.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University NetID<\/a> password page.<\/i><\/li><li><i>Users with separate Computer Science passwords can use\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/services.cs.rutgers.edu\/groups\/password\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>&#8220;Manage your Computer Science password&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em>to change it<\/em>.\u00a0 Computer Science passwords are required to use <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/services.cs.rutgers.edu\/two-factor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Two-factor authentication<\/a><\/strong><\/i><\/li><li><i><a href=\"https:\/\/services.cs.rutgers.edu\/groups\/login\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Group and Guest management.<\/strong><\/a> This will help you create and manage groups. This is useful for three purposes: <\/i><ul><li><i><span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><strong>Sharing Files<\/strong><\/span>: If you want to share files with a group of people, create a group that lists the people, then change the file&#8217;s permissions so they can access it. For more help with this, see<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.cs.rutgers.edu\/resources\/file-storage\/sharing-directories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sharing files<\/a>.<\/strong><\/i><\/li><li><i><span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><strong>Sponsoring Access: <\/strong><\/span>If you are authorized (normally, faculty) and want to allow grad students or collaborators to access research or instructional systems, you can create a guest group. For help with this, see <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/resources.cs.rutgers.edu\/resources\/managing-guest-users\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Managing Your Guest Users<\/a>.<\/strong><\/i><\/li><li><i><span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><strong>Control Logins:<\/strong> <\/span>If you are running your own computer cluster, you can use groups to control users&#8217; ability to log in.<\/i><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Other info.<\/strong> Consider providing your contact information so we can reach you for support. You can set additional information using &#8220;ipa user-mod&#8221; on any of our systems, e.g. <code>ipa user-mod <em>YourNetID<\/em> --phone=8485551212<\/code>, <code>ipa user-mod --help<\/code> will give a list of what can be set. <code>ipa user-show <em>YourNetID<\/em><\/code> will show your current information. You only need to do this once. The same information applies to all of CS Linux systems. <em>Note:<\/em> Changing the first and last names and GECOS will be useless since we reset them to the official university names nightly.<\/li><li><strong>Linux Shell<\/strong>. By default, everyone uses the bash shell. To change to\u00a0<span style=\", monospace;font-size: 17.6px\">tcsh<\/span>, for example, use <code>ipa user-mod <em>YourNetID <\/em>--shell=\/bin\/tcsh<\/code> on any of our systems.<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/services.cs.rutgers.edu\/kerberize.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Integrating your computer\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/services.cs.rutgers.edu\/kerberize.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>with Kerberos<\/strong><\/a> is a how-to for setting it up\u00a0to use Kerberos. (This is for computers located in the computer science department areas. For systems at home, see <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/resources.cs.rutgers.edu\/resources\/other\/working-at-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Working at Home<\/a><\/strong>.)<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/services.cs.rutgers.edu\/sharing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sharing files between systems<\/a><\/strong><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/services.cs.rutgers.edu\/kerberos.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Technical information on our security and account setup<\/strong>.<\/a><\/li><li><b>Cron jobs.<\/b> For systems that use CS Linux accounts, cron jobs need special attention. Because cron jobs are started without your password, they can&#8217;t normally access your files. You will need to enable <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/services.cs.rutgers.edu\/groups\/delegations\">home directory access in cron jobs<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>on each host where you&#8217;re going to use cron. Note that there is a slight decrease in the security of your home directory if you do this, as explained at the link.<\/li><\/ul><p>For help with our systems or immediate assistance, visit the <a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.rutgers.edu\/~operator\/\">LCSR Operator<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\"> at CoRE 235 or call 848-445-2443. Otherwise, see <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.cs.rutgers.edu\/support\/\"><b>CS HelpDesk<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">. Don&#8217;t forget to include your NetID and a description of your problem.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modified: Feb 12, 2026 Computer Science user ID is your University NetID. You must have a University NetID before using a Computer Science account. 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